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Ukrainian servicemen are seen near a billboard with social advertising in central Kiev. Ukraine’s parliament voted on Thursday to refresh its front-line forces and resume partial conscription after a top security official warned that Russian forces backing separatist rebels had sharply increased military activity in the east

A woman walks past a vast billboard advertising luxury flats in Jakarta. Indonesia’s government unveiled an emergency fiscal package last Friday to promote foreign investment, reduce imports and prop up its tumbling rupiah currency, as it struggles to revive confidence in southeast Asia’s largest economy

A South Korean soldier holding his machine gun runs in front of an advertisement board during an anti-terror drill at Government Complex in Sejong, south of Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday. North Korea on Tuesday lashed out anew at South Korea over a small public protest in Seoul in which demonstrators burned effigies of the North’s leaders, saying it would not hold talks with its southern neighbour unless it apologised for anti-North Korean actions ‘big and small’ and warning that it could take retaliatory measures at any time.